The Road: Where the Walking Dead Go on Vacation

we're talking about their overwhelming presence

in pop culture. Could I have your autograph?

you can't turn around without bumping into a movie TV show video game or book

filled with

blood thirsty undead Cormac McCarthy's

the road has all the characteristics of a literary

Walking Dead, but is it really just another zombie story?

let's get out our zombie story check list shall we

We're lost in a post-apocalyptic world, check

our heroes are on the run

check

Plus they're on the US Highway System

which can be a nightmare with or without zombies

Yo, I'm driving here. Check

continuing down the checklist Cannibalistic foes drooling for human

flesh like it's chocolate covered bacon

Check any chance of escape? Nope

ok so that's actually a check too

we defintly seem to be on track for a trip to Zombieland

Aww shucks

How about direct confrontation with the undead

heres just one box we can't check unfortunately

an infectious agent that causes the living to be afraid of turning into a

walking corpse

nope we don't have that either

An oblique ending with no hope for survival

uh oh no more bullets! Also no

after all there is some hope here, good guys come out of the woodwork and rescue

the boy

The man dies

but you can still read the ending is a testament to hope in humanity

whatever the road is we knno it isn't the yellow brick one

there are any emerald city's or happy munchkins here although at this point we

wouldn't be surprised to encounter a

canabalistic dwarf. We represent the cannibal guild

So what is the road?

is that your run-of-the-mill post-apocalyptic cannibal infested

nightmare?

or because we never confront the zombies and aren't in danger

of being infected, does it not quite fit the bill? Shmoop amongst yourselves

Hold on to your Braaaainns